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s r|uhi a Â«^. this edition consists of >^>. v tt i â€” ke-a s â€” city ife l . ." 2 flic -.. drama â– - â€” automobile movies sports 6 â€” wan ada 4 â€” editorial financial i i feature real batata | | , ji society 7 â€” magazine j , fiction bâ€”comics.8 â€” comics Chicago examiner sunday vol xviii no 7 a m sunday in Chicago tn-r/'li rtttsptc elsewh-kk and vicinity i.vjs l__nlis _ ght cents Chicago august 19 1917 u.s to dictate peace terms 16 attacks on hill 70 broken germans sacrifice 80,000 men at lens allies line intact after teutons order to save city at all cost bayonet fighting called most vicious of war london aug 18 the germans ordered to retake hill 70 at any cost to save liens have used up four divisions â€” 80,000 men â€” in sixteen desperate counter attacks since th_e canadians captured the height wednesday in hand-to-hand fighting with knives riflo butts bayonets and bare fists the canadians have beaten off all sixteen assaults . inflicting great losses on the germans regiments of the famous prussian guards were included among those cut to pieces in the vain attempts marching in fours the attackers advance across the open field with the canadian artillery and machine guns raking the ranks to pieces desperate attack fail to pierce lines even the jjame throwers and hur ricanes of sras that accompany the german attacks have failed to bend back the defenders and the attack ers each time fall back leaving their dead anil wounded before the canad ian trenches the counter attacks began yester day afternoon after a lull in which the canadians consolidated the newly-won heights dominating the loos sector they were extender during the evening when the suburb of st emilie and hugo wood to the northwest were assaulted in vain at 1:39 o'clock this morning heavy action began along the whole line north of lens accompanied by a con centrated artillery fire the war office announces the cost ly german attacks have not netted the foe a foot of ground although men back from the battle declare they never had seen such vicious bay onet fighting germany admits lcfss of langemarck lens which the british must cap ture from hill 70 is practically a city of concrete beneath the city is another solid rock constructed by the enemy all means of entrance are seventy feet underground which must be blasted away while the battle for lens is being waged the french made new prog ress between langemarck and bix schotte where two enemy forts were wilson to point way to parley reply to pope will stand on de mand kaiser must be shorn tf power will tell germans how they can end war by h h staksbury p washington aug 18 peace is desired by th ad minis tration at the earliest favor : able opportunity but there will be nu let up in war preparations until thei road to be followed has been thor-l [ oughly examined and found safe the united states proposes to dic tate the peace terms as it now holds | the balance of power the diplo matic developments of the next few weeks are expected to show whether the time to end hostilities has ar rived few months of fighting will clarify situation there is every indication a few months of fighting will clarify the situation if the effort of the holy pontiff does not bear fruit this statement was made to-day by an administration authority in con stant touch with the white house at the state department secretary lansing said pope benedict proposal is under careful consideration a decision has not been reached â€¢ mr lansing said the united states j would answer the vatican note for i itself he doubted the entente would desire america to reply for all i the allies it also was suggested if president wilson answer for all there would have to be a separate american note so this country for itself alone might be able to say things it would not feel constrained to say for its allies allies ask u s to stop russ peace demand america's influence to prevent rus i cia from demanding immediate ac ceptance of the pope's peace pro posals has been reuqested by the entente president samuel gompers of the american federation of labor con ferred at the embassy with ambassa dor bak'hmetieff to-day the state department is understood to have ar ranged the visit it way said unofficially mr gom pers had been reuqested to prepare a message in the name of american labor to russian labor urging it to suspend judgment until president wilson defines his policy wilson will reply in week or 10 da/s - secretary lansing declined to in dicate when president wilson would reply the belief prevailed the an swer will not be forwarded for a week or ten days â– \ state department officials were uncertain whether the initiative in obtaining the views of the entente and the united states would be taken by this country or the allies prob ably britain the opinion was expressed in one quarter the speech of premier lloyd george and the statement of w>rd cecil minister of blockade indies .. ing the unacceptabiluy or the popi j proposals were intended to convey o wilson is advised to seize all coal mines state ignores wilson who can cels sunday engagements to consider problem lovett may be named dictator washington aug 18 â€” by monday president wilson will decide what course is to be followed by the government m con troling the price of coal complete plans for the taking over of the na tions entire coal supply by the fed eral administration were sent to the white house to-day by the federal trade commission the plans contemplate the great est governmental incursion into pri vate enterprise that the united states has ever known they would give the government absolute con trol of the entire machinery of the coal business from the mine to the consumer and would strip the coal operators of the country of all con trol over their product and prices wilson expects to act monday the president paid a personal visit to the offices of the trade commission when that body notified him it had completed its exhaustive investigation and was prepared to submit the recommendations he said he would consider the mat ter over sunday and told the com mission he expected to reach a de cision by monday the plan worked out by the trade commission will be balanced against a plan for voluntary control of coal prices by agreement with the coal producers advanced by the coal pro ductive committee of the council of national defense headed by frank s peabody abandons trip to consider coal the committee already has recom mended to the president that the coal operators and the government get to gether and fix a price which the operators will agree to maintain the scheme would leave the oper ators m control of the industrial ma chinery it is indorsed by the oper ators and the mine labor men who make up the production committee both believe they would fare better under the plan than they would if the government takes over the in dustry to give the coal situation his full attention the president to-day aban doned his usual week-end trip down the potomac m the mayflower and will remain m washington over sun day before he visited the trade com mission to-day the president went to the department of justice where he was closeted for a time with attorney general gregory it was understood the president took up with the chief legal official the scope of the powers conferred on him by the food control bill as affecting the control of coal the recommendations of the trade commission it was stated to-day contemplate the broadest use of the drastic^^wers carried m the food contained two alterna jkmw _â– - : . smith college girls in france drive trucks by agcnce radio to international news service paris aug 18 six american girls members of the smith college relief unit will drive heavy motor truckÃŸ m the recon quered regions of northern france transporting children and old peo ple from the areas where misery reigns seventeen smith collegs girls are leaving for these regions under the leadership of harriet boyd hawes they will install small hospi tals shops and schools and will assist m the rebuilding of homes wilson to cut prices of meat Chicago complaints reach white house cheaper sugar also promised washington aug 18 clamor for reduction m the soaring prices of meats took president wilson on a personal visit to food administrator hoover to-day the president and the food administrator discussed food conditions generally and meat prices m particular the president was anxious to know how soon the food administration proposes to move against the meat profits recent sharp advances m meat prices have brought a flood of protests from all over the country and many have found their way to the white house it was stated to day that the administration will tackle meat prices just as soon as the control of grain prices has been firmly established and the grain buy ing corporation of the government is m working order complaints from Chicago among the charges made m con nection with the meat prices are many directed against hotel and restaurant proprietors particularly m Chicago new york philadelphia and boston it is charged war con ditions and the need for war economy has been used as an excuse for cut ting down meat portions while the size of the portions have been re duced the prices have not been al tered and it is stated that profits on meats served m restaurants and hotels have jumped 100 per cent or more as a result lower sugar prices food administrator hoover has started a series of negotiations ex pected to eliminate entirely all spec ulative profits m sugar from cane field to breakfast table unless sugar producers and dealers volun tarily join the food administration hoover is prepared to take drastic measures bethmann=hollweg to live in munich by agenee rndlo to international news service zurich aug 18 â€” it was reported from berlin to-day that dr von beth mann-hollweg the former german chancellor will make his permanent home m munich elephant runs wild circus crowd in panic columbus ind aug 18 â€” hun dreds of women and children w-ere thrown into a panic to-day when a big bull elephant from a circus ran wild king's nightshirt auctioned at 7.50 london aug 8 â€” a nightshirt j worn by george tv realized il lis ! sd at a red cross auction sal at j kingston-on-thames | remarkable love letters in lusk case won husband to spite wife teacher wrote woman she slew notes at hearing doctor says slayer made him swear he loved her more than wife af pistol point waukesha wis aug 18 â€” dr david roberts for love of whom miss grace lusk teacher and psy chologist shot mrs roberts to death june 21 to-day took the witness stand at miss lusk's preliminary hearing on the charge of murder he swore miss lusk once compelled him to place his hand upon a bible and swear he loved only her it was m a private dining room m milwaukee the doctor testified when pressed by miss lusk's attor ney henry lockney she pointed a pistol at my heart and made me put my hand on a bible and hwear this according to his reluctant testimony was the only time he actually tr.ld her he loved her and wished to leave his wife while dr roberts was testifying miss lusk eyed him so intently and withal so impersonally that he squirmed m his seat and sought to avoid her gaze she was bound over to the decem ber term of the circuit court with out bail and removed to the county jail refuses to admit letters five letters all unsigned were sub mitted to dr roberts he was asked if he had not written them he re fused to answer claiming constitu tional right not to incriminate him self letters written by miss lusk and held by the sheriff also were pre sented but not allowed to be entered as evidence at the hearing as the district attorney made it plain miss lusk is to be tried for murder and that efforts to arouse sympathy m her behalf are to be countered letter hints revenge one letter presented m miss lusk's defense seemed to forecast her sui cide and possible revenge upon the doctor this letter which was super scribed open this m case of acci dent reads it is a bit hard to write this for the majority of folk who don't care for me i have no explanation i should have known better than to play with fire i should have known that men have one code of honor for the woman they love and another for the woman to whom they are mar ried i have had the theory that love between man and woman was stronger than all the legal cere monies m the world when that was lacking there was no sanctity m marriage i still believe so â€” but the man m the case has been too much of a coward to face his wife and tell her the truth he has never been true to her he'll have to fear me now that i have had to suffer i am going to insist that he tell her how matters stand that he be honest with her if he will not if he is still afraid he will have to be afraid of me this time i am not the type of woman to be lied to we have cared as much for each other as a man and woman can the only mistake has been m not telling mrs roberts i have al ways wanted to but he was afraid ah well it will soon be over i am not afraid â€” i have always made my work my religion i hope dear father doesn't take this too hard i have never caused him m'adoo asks war loans of 11 billions secretary wants to authorize 4,000,000,000 certificates m addition to bond popular feature for small sub scribers based on operation of the postal savings banks washington aug is.â€”author ization to issue bonds and certifi cates totaling 1,537â€ž945,460 at once time is provided m the new war budget bill embodying recommenda tions of secretary mcadoo to-day to the house ways and means commit tee in addition to authority to float a 7,538 9-15 460 4 per cent bond issue to care for previous 3,000,000 000 and a future 4,000,000,000 loan authorization the secretary desires power to issue additional certificates of indebtedness to the amount of 2,090,000,000 and an equal amount of war savings certificates m a form available for small investors the periods of the certificates of indebtedness and war savings certifi cates would be limited to one and five years respectively and they would be subject to discount and pay ment m the discretion of the secre tary provide for emergency he also would fix the interest rates and regulate interest payments like the new bonds they would be subject only to super tax american men and women of small means are to be given a new chance to help win the war and at the same time make the safest of investments at agood rate of interest under the provision for certificates no feature cf the budget bill has been studied with more care than that containing the war savings clause a the certificates will be segregated for the men and women of slight in comes by limiting the purchases to a maximum of 100 at any one time tmd forbidding any individual to hold more than i,c0 x 0 worth the bill authorizes the secretary if he deems it advisable to issue stamps tp evidence payments a in stalments on the certificates under this arrangement amounts as low as 3 or less might be made and noted as are postal savings bank deposits increase is provided inclusion of the two additional cer tificate proposals n t mentioned heretofore by administration leaders i m connection with the bill is un derstood to be principally for the i purpose of providing against a sud den demand for money which the 'â– treasury might not be able to meet cigaret blows up warships built here st louis aug 18 â€” a cigaret stub thrown m a corner caused an explosion on two mexican cruisers j being taken from Chicago to mexico twenty men were hurt and two mcx j icans of the crew may die several hurt were city firemen the bot'.ts la azteca and la faerista worth j 70,000 left Chicago four days ago j to proceed to mexico via the mis i sissippi river an explosion on the first boat caused a fire which spread to the second perkins withdraws exemption claim new york aug 18 â€” george w | perkins jr withdrew a claim for ex emption from the draft to-day he i has been engaged m war work for the y m c a mr perkins was found physically fit and accepted for the national army diver rigged as sailing ship off u.s report an atlantic port aug 16 â€” warning of the presence off the atlantic coast of a submarine disguised as a sailing vessel was brought to-day by an oil steamer the captain said he received this message off florida appar ently from bermuda be on close watch for strange submar ine disguised with top half of schooner covering berlin or bust boys hit mayor we'll give your regards to kaiser declare 214 men drafted and eager to go their war cry here is the battle cheer of the 214 new american soldiers from district seventy-eight seven eightl seven eight it's great Â»'- can't wait '< america and their district slogan is berlin or bust mayor thompson when he opens his mail to-morrow will find in it a communication from 214 Chicago boys whose conscription m the new american army he so deplores the resolution was framed last night at a banquet m the morrison hotel where the new soldiers were guests of d m hanson and michael karpen of the exemption board of the seventy-<*ghth district at logan | square mayor is assailed here is the resolution to the rlon william hale thomp son mayor of Chicago we drafted soldiers of district 78 who are about to go salute you by the grace of god we hope to get to berlin and see big bill over there if we do we shall extend to him the warm regards and ten der solicitude of the burgomaster of the sixth german city of the world the resolution was proposed by raymond rafferty 3017 fullerton avenue seconded by herbert cordes 2306 north sawyer avenue and adopted unanimously the men who adopted the resolu tion â€” not one of them claimed ex emption â€” will meet again next thurs | day night m the logan square club jto frame a request to the war de partment that they be permitted to i remain as a unit m the new army | the young patriots wound up their dinner with this song we will trounce him and will bounce him we will joust him and will oust him from our ally lands we will himt thrust and our watchword and war cry will be berlin or bust ! after the banquet the young sol diers invaded the examiner office waving placards with their district i slogan berlin or bust and gave i three cheers for the examiner i no yellow in them , frank p caviezel state represent ative of the twenty-fifth district who was toastrnaster at the banquet led the procession into the examiner office there's not a streak of yellow m one of these boys he cried they can't send us over too soon ] shouted a big fellow m the crowd district 78 distinguished itself m the draft every man of the 214 who met last night hoped from he fir-t that they would be found fit to i fight for uncle sam most of the men are well known m ' uw 1 t.ogan honnre neighborhood judge albert â‚¬._ barneg addressed j the dinner party t 1 u.s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair sunday monday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer gentle variable wind temperature fcr twenty-four hour eliding iu 7 p m : iliah'.'m 77 lowest 00 mean 68 uonnal or the day 71 deficiency since january 1 2&i desrees precipitati'jn for twenty-fout hours ending ax 7 p m none deficient since tamuuy 1 o.<4 inches helative humidity 7 a m 71 2 p m 66i 7 p m 62 eaxometric pressure red\iced to sen lerel 7 t m 8ftl4 7 p m 30.03 sunrifo tasts ri.-02 ! smuÂ«t 0:45 pope to make new offer of peace terms by agence radio to international hens service paris aug 18 â€” as soon as pope benedict has received replies to his peace offer he will send another note says the well informed secolo of milan the statement is regarded as indicat ing the holy father does not consider his outline of terms as final and will not stop at the first attempt vatican circles are said to be optimistic about the results the note may obtain texas cheers Chicago troops first engineers and second ar tillery men feted on way to camp by a staff correspondent terrill tex aug 18.â€”speed ing through texas cotton fields and cooling showers company e first engineers and battery a second artillery are nearing the end of the first part of their journey to battle fields m france they will arrive m houston texas to-morrow morning orders from the camp logan com mander will be given to captain jay a rossiter of the engineers and cap tain j w mattes of the artillery at the railroad station they expect to go direct to camp and to start pre paring quarters for their regiments monday morning lionized by texan s chicago's soldiers are being lion ized by the texans their trip through this state is a triumphal pro cession in one city at noon to-day mayer e h mccristiner and j f mcÃŸeynolds president of the amer ican national bank welcomed the troops m the city square before scores of pretty girls and men m sombreros they distributed 125 wa termelons and many postcards . eating quarters of melon eighteen inches long captain rossiter lieu tenants j h jacobsen walter far well nephew of j v farwell ana william b ready posed for pictures pickaninnies rushed from cotton fields and pelted the train with white and pink blossoms â€¢ will have histori lieutenant farwell was named by captain rossiter to write a daily history of the company m camp logan and france sergeant w e harm of the second artillery chosen for the second re serve officers trainings camp at fort sheridan will be ordered home m a few days he is taking pictures for a photographic history of the bat tery sergeant william shea of the engineers forme notre dame uni versity catcher is organizing a baseball team with sergeant herbert schaus depaul university football and baseball man and roy curtis of dubuque college as a nucleus chal lenges will be sent to houston i heights fairbanks harrisburg and rosehill medill mccormick in paris to see fighing paris aug 18 â€” congressman medill mccormick of Chicago to-day reached paris to study the war par ticularly with regard to its effect on america he lunched with major general pershing and distributed two trunks of chewing gum among the united states soldiers he will soon visit the front he will make a re port to congress on his return to america continued on 7th page 3d column continued on 2d pace 4th column f on 4th page 2d column j

s r|uhi a Â«^. this edition consists of >^>. v tt i â€” ke-a s â€” city ife l . ." 2 flic -.. drama â– - â€” automobile movies sports 6 â€” wan ada 4 â€” editorial financial i i feature real batata | | , ji society 7 â€” magazine j , fiction bâ€”comics.8 â€” comics Chicago examiner sunday vol xviii no 7 a m sunday in Chicago tn-r/'li rtttsptc elsewh-kk and vicinity i.vjs l__nlis _ ght cents Chicago august 19 1917 u.s to dictate peace terms 16 attacks on hill 70 broken germans sacrifice 80,000 men at lens allies line intact after teutons order to save city at all cost bayonet fighting called most vicious of war london aug 18 the germans ordered to retake hill 70 at any cost to save liens have used up four divisions â€” 80,000 men â€” in sixteen desperate counter attacks since th_e canadians captured the height wednesday in hand-to-hand fighting with knives riflo butts bayonets and bare fists the canadians have beaten off all sixteen assaults . inflicting great losses on the germans regiments of the famous prussian guards were included among those cut to pieces in the vain attempts marching in fours the attackers advance across the open field with the canadian artillery and machine guns raking the ranks to pieces desperate attack fail to pierce lines even the jjame throwers and hur ricanes of sras that accompany the german attacks have failed to bend back the defenders and the attack ers each time fall back leaving their dead anil wounded before the canad ian trenches the counter attacks began yester day afternoon after a lull in which the canadians consolidated the newly-won heights dominating the loos sector they were extender during the evening when the suburb of st emilie and hugo wood to the northwest were assaulted in vain at 1:39 o'clock this morning heavy action began along the whole line north of lens accompanied by a con centrated artillery fire the war office announces the cost ly german attacks have not netted the foe a foot of ground although men back from the battle declare they never had seen such vicious bay onet fighting germany admits lcfss of langemarck lens which the british must cap ture from hill 70 is practically a city of concrete beneath the city is another solid rock constructed by the enemy all means of entrance are seventy feet underground which must be blasted away while the battle for lens is being waged the french made new prog ress between langemarck and bix schotte where two enemy forts were wilson to point way to parley reply to pope will stand on de mand kaiser must be shorn tf power will tell germans how they can end war by h h staksbury p washington aug 18 peace is desired by th ad minis tration at the earliest favor : able opportunity but there will be nu let up in war preparations until thei road to be followed has been thor-l [ oughly examined and found safe the united states proposes to dic tate the peace terms as it now holds | the balance of power the diplo matic developments of the next few weeks are expected to show whether the time to end hostilities has ar rived few months of fighting will clarify situation there is every indication a few months of fighting will clarify the situation if the effort of the holy pontiff does not bear fruit this statement was made to-day by an administration authority in con stant touch with the white house at the state department secretary lansing said pope benedict proposal is under careful consideration a decision has not been reached â€¢ mr lansing said the united states j would answer the vatican note for i itself he doubted the entente would desire america to reply for all i the allies it also was suggested if president wilson answer for all there would have to be a separate american note so this country for itself alone might be able to say things it would not feel constrained to say for its allies allies ask u s to stop russ peace demand america's influence to prevent rus i cia from demanding immediate ac ceptance of the pope's peace pro posals has been reuqested by the entente president samuel gompers of the american federation of labor con ferred at the embassy with ambassa dor bak'hmetieff to-day the state department is understood to have ar ranged the visit it way said unofficially mr gom pers had been reuqested to prepare a message in the name of american labor to russian labor urging it to suspend judgment until president wilson defines his policy wilson will reply in week or 10 da/s - secretary lansing declined to in dicate when president wilson would reply the belief prevailed the an swer will not be forwarded for a week or ten days â– \ state department officials were uncertain whether the initiative in obtaining the views of the entente and the united states would be taken by this country or the allies prob ably britain the opinion was expressed in one quarter the speech of premier lloyd george and the statement of w>rd cecil minister of blockade indies .. ing the unacceptabiluy or the popi j proposals were intended to convey o wilson is advised to seize all coal mines state ignores wilson who can cels sunday engagements to consider problem lovett may be named dictator washington aug 18 â€” by monday president wilson will decide what course is to be followed by the government m con troling the price of coal complete plans for the taking over of the na tions entire coal supply by the fed eral administration were sent to the white house to-day by the federal trade commission the plans contemplate the great est governmental incursion into pri vate enterprise that the united states has ever known they would give the government absolute con trol of the entire machinery of the coal business from the mine to the consumer and would strip the coal operators of the country of all con trol over their product and prices wilson expects to act monday the president paid a personal visit to the offices of the trade commission when that body notified him it had completed its exhaustive investigation and was prepared to submit the recommendations he said he would consider the mat ter over sunday and told the com mission he expected to reach a de cision by monday the plan worked out by the trade commission will be balanced against a plan for voluntary control of coal prices by agreement with the coal producers advanced by the coal pro ductive committee of the council of national defense headed by frank s peabody abandons trip to consider coal the committee already has recom mended to the president that the coal operators and the government get to gether and fix a price which the operators will agree to maintain the scheme would leave the oper ators m control of the industrial ma chinery it is indorsed by the oper ators and the mine labor men who make up the production committee both believe they would fare better under the plan than they would if the government takes over the in dustry to give the coal situation his full attention the president to-day aban doned his usual week-end trip down the potomac m the mayflower and will remain m washington over sun day before he visited the trade com mission to-day the president went to the department of justice where he was closeted for a time with attorney general gregory it was understood the president took up with the chief legal official the scope of the powers conferred on him by the food control bill as affecting the control of coal the recommendations of the trade commission it was stated to-day contemplate the broadest use of the drastic^^wers carried m the food contained two alterna jkmw _â– - : . smith college girls in france drive trucks by agcnce radio to international news service paris aug 18 six american girls members of the smith college relief unit will drive heavy motor truckÃŸ m the recon quered regions of northern france transporting children and old peo ple from the areas where misery reigns seventeen smith collegs girls are leaving for these regions under the leadership of harriet boyd hawes they will install small hospi tals shops and schools and will assist m the rebuilding of homes wilson to cut prices of meat Chicago complaints reach white house cheaper sugar also promised washington aug 18 clamor for reduction m the soaring prices of meats took president wilson on a personal visit to food administrator hoover to-day the president and the food administrator discussed food conditions generally and meat prices m particular the president was anxious to know how soon the food administration proposes to move against the meat profits recent sharp advances m meat prices have brought a flood of protests from all over the country and many have found their way to the white house it was stated to day that the administration will tackle meat prices just as soon as the control of grain prices has been firmly established and the grain buy ing corporation of the government is m working order complaints from Chicago among the charges made m con nection with the meat prices are many directed against hotel and restaurant proprietors particularly m Chicago new york philadelphia and boston it is charged war con ditions and the need for war economy has been used as an excuse for cut ting down meat portions while the size of the portions have been re duced the prices have not been al tered and it is stated that profits on meats served m restaurants and hotels have jumped 100 per cent or more as a result lower sugar prices food administrator hoover has started a series of negotiations ex pected to eliminate entirely all spec ulative profits m sugar from cane field to breakfast table unless sugar producers and dealers volun tarily join the food administration hoover is prepared to take drastic measures bethmann=hollweg to live in munich by agenee rndlo to international news service zurich aug 18 â€” it was reported from berlin to-day that dr von beth mann-hollweg the former german chancellor will make his permanent home m munich elephant runs wild circus crowd in panic columbus ind aug 18 â€” hun dreds of women and children w-ere thrown into a panic to-day when a big bull elephant from a circus ran wild king's nightshirt auctioned at 7.50 london aug 8 â€” a nightshirt j worn by george tv realized il lis ! sd at a red cross auction sal at j kingston-on-thames | remarkable love letters in lusk case won husband to spite wife teacher wrote woman she slew notes at hearing doctor says slayer made him swear he loved her more than wife af pistol point waukesha wis aug 18 â€” dr david roberts for love of whom miss grace lusk teacher and psy chologist shot mrs roberts to death june 21 to-day took the witness stand at miss lusk's preliminary hearing on the charge of murder he swore miss lusk once compelled him to place his hand upon a bible and swear he loved only her it was m a private dining room m milwaukee the doctor testified when pressed by miss lusk's attor ney henry lockney she pointed a pistol at my heart and made me put my hand on a bible and hwear this according to his reluctant testimony was the only time he actually tr.ld her he loved her and wished to leave his wife while dr roberts was testifying miss lusk eyed him so intently and withal so impersonally that he squirmed m his seat and sought to avoid her gaze she was bound over to the decem ber term of the circuit court with out bail and removed to the county jail refuses to admit letters five letters all unsigned were sub mitted to dr roberts he was asked if he had not written them he re fused to answer claiming constitu tional right not to incriminate him self letters written by miss lusk and held by the sheriff also were pre sented but not allowed to be entered as evidence at the hearing as the district attorney made it plain miss lusk is to be tried for murder and that efforts to arouse sympathy m her behalf are to be countered letter hints revenge one letter presented m miss lusk's defense seemed to forecast her sui cide and possible revenge upon the doctor this letter which was super scribed open this m case of acci dent reads it is a bit hard to write this for the majority of folk who don't care for me i have no explanation i should have known better than to play with fire i should have known that men have one code of honor for the woman they love and another for the woman to whom they are mar ried i have had the theory that love between man and woman was stronger than all the legal cere monies m the world when that was lacking there was no sanctity m marriage i still believe so â€” but the man m the case has been too much of a coward to face his wife and tell her the truth he has never been true to her he'll have to fear me now that i have had to suffer i am going to insist that he tell her how matters stand that he be honest with her if he will not if he is still afraid he will have to be afraid of me this time i am not the type of woman to be lied to we have cared as much for each other as a man and woman can the only mistake has been m not telling mrs roberts i have al ways wanted to but he was afraid ah well it will soon be over i am not afraid â€” i have always made my work my religion i hope dear father doesn't take this too hard i have never caused him m'adoo asks war loans of 11 billions secretary wants to authorize 4,000,000,000 certificates m addition to bond popular feature for small sub scribers based on operation of the postal savings banks washington aug is.â€”author ization to issue bonds and certifi cates totaling 1,537â€ž945,460 at once time is provided m the new war budget bill embodying recommenda tions of secretary mcadoo to-day to the house ways and means commit tee in addition to authority to float a 7,538 9-15 460 4 per cent bond issue to care for previous 3,000,000 000 and a future 4,000,000,000 loan authorization the secretary desires power to issue additional certificates of indebtedness to the amount of 2,090,000,000 and an equal amount of war savings certificates m a form available for small investors the periods of the certificates of indebtedness and war savings certifi cates would be limited to one and five years respectively and they would be subject to discount and pay ment m the discretion of the secre tary provide for emergency he also would fix the interest rates and regulate interest payments like the new bonds they would be subject only to super tax american men and women of small means are to be given a new chance to help win the war and at the same time make the safest of investments at agood rate of interest under the provision for certificates no feature cf the budget bill has been studied with more care than that containing the war savings clause a the certificates will be segregated for the men and women of slight in comes by limiting the purchases to a maximum of 100 at any one time tmd forbidding any individual to hold more than i,c0 x 0 worth the bill authorizes the secretary if he deems it advisable to issue stamps tp evidence payments a in stalments on the certificates under this arrangement amounts as low as 3 or less might be made and noted as are postal savings bank deposits increase is provided inclusion of the two additional cer tificate proposals n t mentioned heretofore by administration leaders i m connection with the bill is un derstood to be principally for the i purpose of providing against a sud den demand for money which the 'â– treasury might not be able to meet cigaret blows up warships built here st louis aug 18 â€” a cigaret stub thrown m a corner caused an explosion on two mexican cruisers j being taken from Chicago to mexico twenty men were hurt and two mcx j icans of the crew may die several hurt were city firemen the bot'.ts la azteca and la faerista worth j 70,000 left Chicago four days ago j to proceed to mexico via the mis i sissippi river an explosion on the first boat caused a fire which spread to the second perkins withdraws exemption claim new york aug 18 â€” george w | perkins jr withdrew a claim for ex emption from the draft to-day he i has been engaged m war work for the y m c a mr perkins was found physically fit and accepted for the national army diver rigged as sailing ship off u.s report an atlantic port aug 16 â€” warning of the presence off the atlantic coast of a submarine disguised as a sailing vessel was brought to-day by an oil steamer the captain said he received this message off florida appar ently from bermuda be on close watch for strange submar ine disguised with top half of schooner covering berlin or bust boys hit mayor we'll give your regards to kaiser declare 214 men drafted and eager to go their war cry here is the battle cheer of the 214 new american soldiers from district seventy-eight seven eightl seven eight it's great Â»'- can't wait '< america and their district slogan is berlin or bust mayor thompson when he opens his mail to-morrow will find in it a communication from 214 Chicago boys whose conscription m the new american army he so deplores the resolution was framed last night at a banquet m the morrison hotel where the new soldiers were guests of d m hanson and michael karpen of the exemption board of the seventy-